Too many of you are psyched that you believe we have "crappy receivers."
We lost Branch and Givens. Givens was an average receiver, at best, that was made to look better than he was,by Brady. Branch was a solid receiver, but far frombeing super star status.
Both, IMO, have been adequately replaced,and on top of that, our backups are significantly better than the backups of the past. Troy Brown remains a factor, no change.
This fallacy that our receives suck, or are crappy, etc..is totally ridiculous.
Just change the ridiculous routes they are usingk use some play action, some deception, stay out of that damned shotgun formation with no back in the backfield, which telegraphs a pass play, and start using the inside of the field more often, where a cutting receiver can have an advantage.
And start throwing more on first down and use the no huddle at times other than late in the 4th quarter when it is too late.
The receivers are fine, the play calling and the routes need to be changed.
NEM Enough!!
No one wants to hear it ! You are wrong... WRONG... JUST PLAIN wrong!!
This is not a school yard Offense. It never was. Accomplished NFL receivers have been unable to adopt to the sight adjustments required.
That is the problem now, nothing more. The only observation you make that is original, is also the only one that is correct. The receivers on this squad will be fine, after another Training Camp, next season.
Reche the only newcomer with a TC, has finally gotten it, Ben is understanding it, Brown knows it, and Belichick says that Gaffney is beginning to get it. Belichick says he thinks CJ will eventually get it too. Gabriel wasn't and didn't look like he would, and therefore is gone.
Making up for high priced talent with brains takes time, unfortunately.
YOU b**ch so much and get yourself so wound up in it, that you even b**ch when McDaniels' runs the slants and incuts that you want exclusively, and they DON'T WORK! You then still criticize them and him. Try listening to yourself, sometime.
For example, in the Miami game they ran five slant/incuts. Your prescription for success.
Net result, one for or five yard completion in the game in front of the LBs, and three incompletions, and an almost sure INT that we were saved ONLY by the defenders bad hands, because he read it and stepped in front of it, but dropped the INT. Two of the others were read, and they were a little late in jumping the routes but the defenders tried to jump them, and they ended up as mere incompletions. They were in position to make those plays, so they didn't and won't work agaisnt that Defesne despite your prescription.
This sight adjustment oriented Passing game is is also necessary for the Belichick OVERALL plan for success. ONLY by using an Offense that negates the need for superior and expensive athletes, by using smarts and complexity, does he have the financial surplus in the cap. He purposely restricts the budget there, and uses the surplus elsewhere to build a complete Team with lots of depth.
Don't you see that. Are you that blind?!?
This Offense (and
ANY OC that Belichick selects, and hires to run it), is NOT going to be the damn Colts with their entire cap budget consumed in a QB and receiving corps. And a team with no Defense. They have won nothing and never will, in spite of your wish that the Pats ran that offense, with lesser talented and cheaper players. It simply won't work.
If you want that kind of Team, buy a Colts jersey and adopt them as your team. That's the ONLY way you'll ever have that Offense, until Belichick leaves the Patriots.
Why don't you STOP criticizing the OC puppet and b***ch about the guy who pulls the strings and controls them all, Bill Belichick?
Then you might see how stupid you seem to so many other fans.
So stop the constant, constant, eternal, same old, same old, broken record. It even grates on me.
Aren't the stats all that matters? Brady can't do it by himself. The Jags have the D to play the Patriots much like Miami did and have a Pro Bowl CB to help that happen. It should be a very tough game. The Patriot are going to have to match them physically and win at the LOS, win the turnover battle, no stupid penalties and execute. Jags have beaten some good teams at home and collectivele by a wide margin. What they don't have are stats -
